BOTANICAL Rosa damascena
Olfactive family
Floral
Rose
Product type
NaturalsTechnology
Absolute Olfactive description
Floral, rosy, honey, fruity, licorous, slighty animalic.
Variations of floral, spicy rose, more or less sweet.
Moroccan origin is more sweet and floral while Turkish origin is more spicy and animalic.
Used in Fine Fragrance to gives a sweet floral rosy note.
Very complex and long-lasting.
A primary extraction with volatile solvent on fresh or dry biomass yields to a Concrete or Resinoid.
The Absolute is obtained via a second purification step in the process.
Extracted part: flowers.
350 flowers app. harvested in 1 Kg.
2 000 flowers app. harvested per hour per person.
300 000 flowers app. to produce 1 Kg of absolute.
800 kg of flowers are necessary to obtain 1 Kg of absolute.
Sourcing countries
Bulgaria Morocco Turkey